Ocoee police on Friday arrested a 34-year-old registered sex offender at the home of his father, also a registered sex offender. The son, Joseph Burgess Jr., is accused of moving from Michigan to Florida without notifying authorities of his new address. That's a crime. According to Ocoee police, he left Michigan three years ago and hasn't registered his whereabouts since then. He's lived with his father in Ocoee for about a month, police reported. There is no evidence that he's committed any sex crimes in the three years since Michigan authorities lost track of him, Ocoee police said.

There is something terribly old-fashioned about a model-train show. Nostalgia so thick you can almost smell it. Grown men still playing with the toys of their youth. Old guys pining for the lost days of steam locomotives. Remembrances of the basement train layout of childhoods spent in places where they had basements. And then there is this: fathers and sons, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, spending time together. "It's our one-on-one time," said Chad Chorak, 38, attending the Great Train Expo at the Central Florida Fairgrounds on Sunday with his 6-year-old son Adam.

The Man Who Knew Cary Grant, by Jonathan Schwartz (Random House, $16.95): This novel eloquently captures moments in the life of Norman Savitt, as he matures from middle to old age, and in the life of his son, Jesse, as he grows from childhood to middle age.Collectively, the moments tell a moving, bittersweet story, but Jonathan Schwartz doesn't weave them together in a neat narrative. Instead, he recounts events much as we might remember them ourselves -- as a series of feelings jumbled out of chronological order.

Jordan Alvarez, the 7-year-old boy attacked by a swarm of yellow jackets last week, was released from Florida Hospital-Orlando on Wednesday, according to his mother, Jennifer Jones. But on Thursday, Jordan went back. This time he went back to Florida Hospital-Altamonte to visit his father, David Alvarez, who continues to fight for his life after also being stung repeatedly in the attack. "David is slowly coming around," Jones said about her husband. "He's a fighter, and I know we will get through this.

In 1969, I made the decision to become a police officer with the Orlando Police Department.I had just returned home from a war that had torn two different countries apart. Searching for a profession that had a history of service and honor, I chose law enforcement.I spent many years with the Orlando Police Department. Then I became a member of the Orange County Sheriff's Office, where I serve today.It was a proud moment in my life when my son John announced that he wanted to become a deputy sheriff with Orange County.

MIRAMAR - Federal agents charged a father and son with possession of more than 1,500 pounds of cocaine.Drug Enforcement Administration agents were watching Richard Mendez's Miramar home Friday when Mendez drove away, DEA spokesman Brent Eaton said.Miami-Dade police, acting in conjunction with the DEA's ongoing investigation, pulled Mendez over and found 200 kilograms, or 440 pounds, of cocaine inside his car, Eaton said.Agents also seized 1,082 pounds of cocaine from the master bedroom of the Mendez house, Eaton said.

A father and son died of heart attacks two hours apart in the same hospital emergency room. Edwin L. Leet, 70, of Plum, was pronounced dead at Citizens General Hospital Tuesday morning, about two hours after the death of his son, Marshall Leet, said V.L. Rusiewicz, chief deputy coroner. Edwin Leet collapsed as he and his wife rushed to see their son, who would have been 35 Thursday. An autopsy showed that Marshall Leet, of Allegheny, had a previously undetected heart ailment. Edwin Leet had been under a doctor's care for heart disease.

A father and son from Merritt Island accused of smuggling 13,710 pounds of marijuana into Brevard County from 1979 to September 1992 have agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors in Orlando.James Wall, 59, and Jeffrey, 34, agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to possess and distribute marijuana, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Jancha said Thursday. They were arrested Sept. 16 by the Brevard County Drug Task Force and the Internal Revenue Service. Jancha said the two smuggled marijuana from Jamaica to marinas in Brevard County on sailboats.

A father and son were convicted of murder Saturday in the 1995 lunchtime massacre of four family enemies in a crowded restaurant. A family friend was found not guilty of murder charges but convicted of weapons charges. Anthony Clemente, 48, and his son, Damian, 22, were sentenced to mandatory life terms after the verdicts were read. The shootings at the 99 Restaurant climaxed a longtime feud between the Clementes and the Luisi family, prosecutors said.

Police Wednesday investigated the shooting deaths of a father and his son, but they released few details.Robert Householder, 72, and his son, Christopher Householder, 27, suffered gunshot wounds, police spokeswoman Sandy Morris said. The weapon appears to have been a 22-caliber Marlin long rifle that was found in the home, she said.Police found no signs of forced entry into the home on Bluford Avenue but would not speculate on what led to the shootings.

A mentally disabled New Smyrna Beach man was convicted Wednesday of shooting his father to death in 2011 and could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. A jury convicted Marcus White, 23, of manslaughter with a firearm in the June 7, 2011 killing of Douglas White. Marcus White took Douglas White's .40-caliber Glock semiautomatic pistol from a holster and shot him in the back from two or three feet away as the 50-year-old man slept, prosecutors said. Marcus White initially said an intruder had shot his father.

This is a story about the ties that bind. Ricky and Jordan Taylor are in the family business. It involves crazy-quick reflexes while spinning around a road course in a car at average speeds of 130 mph. Their dad, Wayne Taylor, thought he was done with all of that at the end of the 2006 season when he stepped away from driving full-time. But stuff happens in life. Ricky and Jordan's professional driving careers blossomed in recent years. Max "The Ax" Angelelli - friend, business partner and former co-driver with Wayne Taylor - then thought it would be cool if he could hitch a ride with the boys during the Rolex 24 At Daytona.

A father and son were arrested Wednesday after a Volusia County deputy noticed them trying to steal a $10,000 generator from a closed fireworks tent near DeLand, the Sheriff's Office said. Christopher Suffield Sr., 47, and Christopher Suffield Jr., 28, both of Crescent City in Putnam County, were trying to hook up the generator to their truck's trailer hitch when a deputy saw them about 9:50 p.m. outside Brandwyine Village Shopping Center, 3100 Woodland Blvd., investigators said.

CLERMONT - Kirk Johnson and his 6-year-old son, Kylan, like to putter around together. They're a pretty good team. The father-and-son regulars at Kings Ridge Golf Club topped the age 6-7 division field at the 2013 Florida State Golf Association Parent-Child Championship at Walt Disney World Golf's Oak Trail Golf Course. The Johnsons outscored four other teams in the 9-hole event. Kylan has been taking golf lessons from Lee Williamson, Kings Ridge's head golf pro, who said the youngster "has a lot of ability and enjoys playing very much.

A Mississippi tourist remains in critical condition after the disclosure of an affair during a family dinner late Sunday ended in a fight between father and son, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Shortly before 10 p.m., Taylor Dwayne Harris, 21, learned his dad was having an affair and receiving text messages from his lover while the family was eating at Dave and Buster's restaurant on International Drive, according to a sheriff's office report. Upset, the son walked outside and his father, 52-year-old Leonard Harris, followed him into the parking lot where witnesses watched a fight begin and end with a single punch, according to sheriff's records.

An Apopka day-care worker was arrested Thursday after investigators said she slapped a 2-year-old hard enough to leave finger marks and the beginnings of a black eye. Jacqueline Clemente, 33, was arrested on charges of child abuse, child neglect and battery. The toddler's parents took her to Florida Hospital Apopka on Tuesday after the director of Park Avenue Child Care, 33 N. Park Ave., called the mother to say the girl had a scratch on her face, an Apopka police report states.

The bodies of Vincent Vaughn, 51, and his son, Tyler, 20, were found inside their St. Cloud home this morning, according to police. The deaths were described as suspicious. Their bodies were discovered when co-workers of Vincent Vaughn went to the family's home at the corner of Carolina Avenue and 15 t h Street after he failed to come to work, police said. The death remain under investigation. No other details were released. hcurtis@Tribune.com or 407-420-5257.

Robert Arthur Magoon and his father have an amazing reunion story to tell.Theirs was in Santa Clara County's jail, where Robert Magoon is in custody allegedly for violating his parole, and his father, Michael Arthur Magoon, is held on robbery charges.''When I first came here, they said, 'Do you have a relative here?''' said Robert Magoon, 19. ''I said, 'Not that I know of.' . . . I thought it couldn't be possible.''The two were separated shortly after Robert's birth when his parents split up. Robert said he spent most of his youth in foster homes.

A Winter Garden toddler was found safe early Sunday afternoon, hours after being taken from his home in the dead of night. Jayden Martinez, 18 months old, was found shortly after noon with his father, Carlos Martinez, and is in good health, according to Orange County Sheriff's Office spokesman Jeff Williamson. Investigators interviewed Martinez, and it does not appear that he will be charged, they said. He is described as the ex-boyfriend of Jayden's mother, and Williamson said there was an "ongoing custody issue" between Jayden's parents.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office today reported that a man whose body was found yesterday near a pond off International Drive was the victim of a homicide. The agency did not release a cause of death and said they did not know the man's identity. According to spokeswoman Jane Watrel, he was a Hispanic male, 5-foot-7 and 175 pounds, but officials do not know his approximate age. He had been dead less than a week, Watrel wrote. The Orange County medical examiner conducted an autopsy today.